Zhanjiang dialect

Chinese dialect mostly spoken in the city of Zhanjiang
Zhanjiang
湛江話
Native toChina
RegionMainly in Zhanjiang, southwestern Guangdong province.
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
  • Sinitic
Early forms
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
  • Old Chinese[a]
    • Proto-Min
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
  Zhanjiang dialect

The Zhanjiang dialect is a dialect mostly spoken in Zhanjiang in Guangdong, China. It is a sub-dialect of Leizhou Min.[4]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ Mei, Tsu-lin (1970), "Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 30: 86–110, doi:10.2307/2718766, JSTOR 2718766
  2. ^ Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1984), Middle Chinese: A study in Historical Phonology, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, p. 3, ISBN 978-0-7748-0192-8
  3. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Min". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  4. ^ Zhanjiang Dialect entry in Glossika Archived October 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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